What the hell is that?
I saw these in someone’s front yard the other day. Are they renegade cherries blossoming brussel sprout style?
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Author: thewholeruth
I am on a search for truth about food, healing, and the holistic approach to life.
I blog about my curiosities and my whole self, which tends to be anything that's not cool to bring up at parties: gardening, periods, mental illness, poverty, injury, sex therapy, codependence, healthy eating, poop, avocado tree hoarding, feelings in general, and honesty. I haven’t actually blogged about periods yet, but I do always bring it up at parties.
Research Reminder #14: Amish cancer rates
How do Amish cancer rates compare statistically to non-Amish? I’m wondering about how much less chemicals they are around than people who use electrical machines… If u can’t use a dryer, you don’t touch dryer sheets (even though I use a dryer and can’t afford dryer sheets…)… And they would be exposed less electro-magnetic radiation without the use of cell phones and wifi computers and microwave radiation in microwave ovens. I know they don’t always abide by their own rules, but I’m still curious…
Johnny’s Seeds~ Their story makes me happy
This is a wonderful company that my boss introduced me to when I was a farmer. I’m excited to start buying organic heirloom seeds from them! After watching this video, I feel so inspired to be in the sun, work in the soil, plant some life-giving food, care for it, and save seeds for the future…
That Feels Delicious #3: Dad’s Basil Polenta
• Breakfast: 8oz Green TJs juice, splash o organic TJs apple juice, 1/4 org cucumber, 1 large banana, 6 org baby carrots, 20 raw hazelnuts, water
Swim: 18 doggy paddle laps, paddle board scissor kicks & V legs out & in, tread water, limp from shallow to deep 4 times
• Lunch: Daddy’s Basil Polenta aka Tuesta Polenta (the basil plant is named after my friend Jose Tuesta)…
Boil water, add cornmeal (3 to 1), turn heat to low, whisk for 1 min, then stir constantly & evenly w/ a spoon, for up to 20 min, until congealy/ more gets pulled by spoon as you stir. Add salt & fresh basil. Optional: olive oil or butter. Pour into casserole dish with lid & put in fridge to cool.
Lunch was a cube of polenta with Daddy’s beans & his mushroom marinara.
• Snack: 5 org baby carrots, 4 slices org cucumber, 4 slices org Roma tomato, homemade hummus…
1 can chickpeas (chickpeas, water, salt 380 mg), 1 org garlic clove, fresh squeezed lemon juice, tbsp tahini, fresh ground peppercorns & sea salt, dash of cayenne, tsp olive oil, blended with potato masher
I forgot to write down dinner…
That Feels Delicious #2: Quinoa Caprese
Swimming is coming along swimmingly 🙂
• Breakfast: 8 oz green juice, banana, 1/4 organic avocado, 5 organic baby carrots, 14 raw hazelnuts, water, big ol’ handful of ORGANIC KALE! MMMmm! (Dad bought some without me asking! Yay Daddy!!!)
17 laps doggy paddling, scissor kicks & V kicks on the blue floaty thing, Russians in the deep end holding onto & facing the wall, standing on right leg: arabesques, Peake & out to the side, kick front, then limped walking around, squats on side of pool.
• Lunch: Daddy’s Chili Beans, 1/4 org avocado, 1 thick slice beefsteak tomato, bit o minced shallot, cracked black peppere, 1 basil leaf off Jose Tuesta, sprinkle of turmeric, big ol’ handful of ORGANIC KALE! MMMmm!, all wrapped in Alejandro brand flour tortilla
24 oz. Brita water
• Snack: 12 oz. peach juice & 2 slices organic polenta
• Dinner: organic quinoa, tomato cubes, org garlic glove, shallot, 1/4 org avocado, big ol’ handful of ORGANIC KALE! MMMmm!, cracked black pepper, sea salt, TJs pasta seasoning, org turmeric spice, fresh squeezed lemon juice, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, 2 basil leaves off Jose T.
• Snack: Peanut butter cookie Larabar, 16 oz. Brita water
• 2 Cold Eeze cherry zinc lozenges (zincum gluconicum 2x, corn syrup, glycerine, natural flavors, sucrose)
That Feels Delicious #1: Peachy Keen… wa
I decided to write down what I eat from time to time, to share and also to remember. But today is an odd day to start because my meals are total misrepresentations of my “norm.” I’ve never had what I ate for breakfast & dinner before. And I had a chicken burrito on a flour tortilla which I may not have had since 2001? Nonetheless, my yummy meals today…
• Breakfast:
Creamy, filling, yummy despite the garlic Smoothie made of:
1/2 an organic avocado
Big banana
2 stalks celery
Maybe twenty hazelnuts
4 organic baby carrots
Organic garlic clove
Cup of green TJs juice (has spirulina, broccoli, chorella, & a bunch of other stuff like nectarines)
1/2 cup TJs peach juice (100%)
1/2 cup TJs cranberry grape juice (100%)
Had at least an hour of sun
After my swim: 24oz Brita water
• Lunch:
Organic chicken drumstick, baked with turmeric, TJs pastry seasonings (onion, garlic, lemon peel, basil, paprika, fennel, ginger, lemon oil, black pepper, thyme) organic oregano, rosemary, cayenne, peach juice
Shredded in an Alejandro tortilla hot off the olive oiled comal, with fresh tomato, shallot, organic avocado, a leaf off the basil plant, 1/2 organic garlic glove, fresh cracked pepper, seasoned rice vinegar
Water: 24oz
• Snack:
Apple pie Larabar
• Dinner:
Dad’s Peachy Keen…wa
GET IT? 🙂
3 tablespoons maple syrup reduced with TJs peach juice (which has apple, grape, & other stuff)
1 peach sliced & warmed in sauce
Drizzled over quinoa
Topped with walnuts
TASTY!!!
Research Reminder #13: Adult Autistic Tendencies?
What are the symptoms of mild autism in adults?
Research Reminder #12: Mania Increase?
Has manic depression (as opposed to just depression) increased since the introduction of anti-depressants?
Research reminder #11: Juice Differences
What’s the difference between store bought juice, juice from a “juicer,” juice from a blender, and where does the Vitamix fall in line with all of this?
Stories from Aunt Ruth
There are so many things I’m excited to share on this site! Here a few ideas that I’m eager to write about, as something I can look forward to, and hopefully you will too :)… Continue reading “Stories from Aunt Ruth”
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